Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as well as in philosophy, and that she inspired Boccaccio, Goethe, Herder, Schopenhauer, Emerson, and probably also old Aesop.

What threatens civilization today is not war, but the changing conception of life values entailed by certain political doctrines. Only by recapturing the dream of human freedom and restoring the importance of the common man's liberties can that undermining threat to modern civilization be averted

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated into reality, like seeds germinating underground, sure to sprout in their search for the sunlight.

There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.